How to get the parent menu id from the active menu id with the Joomla! 1.6 API

Written by Ian Carnaghan Mar 25 · 9 sec read

This can be done using the getActive() method from the JMenu class with the Application subpackage. Read More here
Anywhere in your Joomla! code use the following codeline to get the parent IDfor the active id.
```
$parentID = JSite::getMenu()->getActive()->tree[0];
```

Last Updated On March 25, 2018

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How to get the parent menu id from the active menu id with the Joomla! 1.6 API

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